WOLCOTT — When Luis "The Mexican" Cedillo rolled out of California in a pricey Cadillac loaded with 13 pounds of heroin, it's unlikely he knew that federal agents were already on to him.

Cedillo, a suspected drug trafficker with ties to Waterbury, drove cross-country from California to Connecticut in November, hauling a cache of heroin hidden in the Escalade's undercarriage. For most of the trip, not a federal agent was in sight, yet the Drug Enforcement Administration knew his location at nearly every leg of his journey.

That's because they were tracking his cell phone, watching in real time as it the phone used various cell towers through Utah, Colorado, Ohio and eventually Waterbury.

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